... second most important art form in China after calligraphy is painting. Most of the earliest surviving Chinese paintings date from the Song dynasty, which is seen as one of the golden eras of the tradition. A number of famous artists and art theorists, such as Su Dongpo (pseudonym of Su Shi), lived during this period, and the important art form of landscape ... in China took shape with the introduction of Indian Buddhism. The legend had it that on a certain night of the year 60, Ming Emperor Liu Zhuang in Eastern Han dreamed a golden man without knowing where he came from. The next day, ...

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... of the country. This began a period of history where the country was ruled by warlords and the country was plagued with civil wars and unrest (Kohn, 2000, (Eichman, 2000). The age of civil wars and disunity began with the era of the Three Kingdoms. These kingdoms were rules by Wei, Shu, and Wu, each of which had overlapping reigns during the ... and the power was lost due to public rebellion, assassination and disloyalty (Anonymous, 2000). The medicine man Sun Si-miao was a child prodigy. . He had mastered the Chinese classics by age 20 and then became a well-known medical practitioner....

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